The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-30
COMMENT AND OPINION.

COMMENT AND OPINION.
WHATS the use to boiler if you don't holler
loud? The world is too busy to listen to whis-
pers--Houston Post.
indianapolis has baseball nine-but her
big ''short-stop" is Green Smith. He has played
a game that knocks the Democratic party of the
State out before reaching first base.-Chcago
Inter Ocean.
THE entire theory of commission government
is wrong. The State should hold every one to a
strict accountability for his acts, but it should
not attempt to interfere with the detailed
regulation of any business. Philadelphia Rec
ord
CARTER HARRISON claims to be Democrat,
but he is just the sort of Democrat that re-
spectacle Democrats avoid; and it is to the
honor of the Democratic President that he failed
to recognize Carter Harrlsons alleged claims.
Atlanta Constitution.
If the star-eyed goddess shall find her native
blue grass air too smoky from the roaring fur
naces and gaping coal pits that will soon fill tho
State she can move to Texas-at least for the
present. Wherever she is we wish her we'll, but
at present our Fluctuations are undoubtedly for
the grand old State of kentucky and her iron
mines.-New York Sun.
UNTIL master workmen and walking delegates
cease to exist as idle absorbers of the wages Of
workincmen strikes and lockouts will continue
to occur with greater or less frequency, for
exist unless they foment trouble between en-
ployers and employed That is all the real work
they do. and unless they do that their occupa-
ton will be ne-Philadelphia Inquirer.
IT is to be hoped that the Republican Judges
of all ranks now on the federal bench will not
be seriously diminished in number while
Democratic administration is in power. It
would not be safe. during the present genera
ton. at least, for judiciary imbued with Demo
cratic principles to be intrusted with the inter
rf <ra FoIo Low tho
war, emancipation and reconstruction period.
Chicago Journal.
LARGE majority of the white and colored
voters of the South are undoubtedly to day in
accord with the policy Of the Republican party.
But they will never be brought to act upon their
convictions by harping upon old sores and by
keeping alive old arrangements The duty Of
the Republican leaders, then. seems to be to ac-
cept frankly the situation and prepare for the
reorganization of the party in tho Southern
States.-Phiadelphia Press.
SINCE something has to be taxed to support
the State and local governments, the jails, the
almshouses insane hospitals and reformatories,
it is right and proper that the liquor traffic should
contribute largely for these purposes. The bur-
den is distributed and borne unconsciously by
the consumer Of liquor. who can escape the tax
any time he chooses by letting liquor alone. Po-
litical economy, good morals and common sense
are all on the side Of high license. -Philadelphia
Press.
called the courtesy of railways than the man
who carries a hod. The legitimate newspaper
will support all that railways justly claim
without favors of any kind and free passes could
not make the honest journal do more less.
In point of fact, what has been called the cour-
tesy of railways to newspapers has been more
than profitless to leading public journals, and
they are among the most anx ious for the entire
abolition OF the whole SyStem.-Philadelphia
Times
ArrC khn al
Democratic hostility to any and every restric-
ton of the liquor traffic, makes this a party
question wherever such measures are pending
Republicans propose regulation because they be-
lieve it the wsest ana best thing that is prac-
ticable In that spirit they invite the aid Of
men of all parties. But in every State sub
stantaly the entire Democratic party obeys or
ders from the liquor interest, if it existed
solely to serve the personal convenience of sa-
loon keepers. -New York Tribune.
No greater outrage upon American freemen
was ever committed than the refusal of the
Democratic House Of Representatives to take
some steps for the admission OF Dakota as a
State. The Territory has 500, 900 inhabitants,
3.6l0 school houses valued at over So 600, 900,
and nearly three hundred newspapers But the
people of the Territory are Republicans in pol
itics and the Democrats would not admit the
State. Democrats generally have justifable
prejudice against a country where school-h houses
are abundant and newspapers ar read.-Nation-
al Republican.
WE are heartily in favor Of employing convict
| labor in building roads, but think their efforts
| can be employed to better advantage in the
States than in Alaska With this policy carried
out carefully and iudiciously for fifteen or TWEEN
ty years the value of farming land in nearly every
| State of the Union would be more than doubled
in value, because of the greater accessibility to
market of the farmers products, and every
| branch of industry and commerce would be cor
respondingly benefited It seems to US to Be
folly to exile to Alaska labor so much needed at
home.-Pittsbure Chronicle Telegraph.
| Mr.. BLAINE will never oppose the Republican
party in any form. He is too grateful for its
past aid and honor to him; too proud of his coun-
| try. which that party-his party-restored; toe
| magnanmous, too noble man to stoop to enter
| any con test to beat nybody in any future can.
vass for the presidency. But not so with the
Blaine Republicans Of this country. While they
| may never see their great leader exalted, they
| will never permit any man who had a hand in
the disgraceful disaster of 1884 to climb to power
| in 1883. Either clean handed Republicans like
| John Sherman, General Hawley or Governo,
| Long, of Massachusetts, must bear off the palm
| next time, or Democratic President will sue
coed Grover Cleveland in .-A1inneapoli.
/ Tribune.
/ Raecher Family Ouarrels